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Melissa, Josie, Corey

 Romanticism is a movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that marked the reaction in literature, philosophy, art, religion, and politics from the formal orthodoxy of the preceding period.  Individual freedom is important.  Most settings are in exotic locales or the supernatural.  Poetry is the highest expression of the imagination.

 Values the imagination over reality.  Educated sophistication is bad.  Youthful innocence is good.  Progress is bad.

 Values feeling and intuition over reason  Civilization is bad but Nature is good  Nature is the way to find God  Lots of inspiration from myths and legends

 The tranistion into this period was more based on nature and superstition